Insights

  • CDR Review confirms: “SeRANIS shows a promising path to establishing a Space Innovation Hub in Germany.”

    Neubiberg, 14.03.2024: On March 13 and 14, 2024, the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the SeRANIS project took place with the project management and the top-class CDR expert panel from the Bundeswehr and space research. During this event, the SeRANIS team was able to demonstrate its innovative and sustainable design. With a particularly high number…

  • The Importance of Space Systems for the Future

    February 15, 2024: The New Space Symposium of the BDI’s New Space Initiative, chaired by Matthias Wachter, took place for the third time in the run-up to the Munich Security Conference. During the symposium, the strategic importance of space was discussed with more than 100 representatives from the New Space ecosystem. In addition to the…

  • First SeRANIS experiments to be launched into orbit in 2024

    Neubiberg, Feb 13, 2024: Even before its own planned mission with ATHENE 1, SeRANIS is proving its maturity by sending four experiments into space on OroraTech’s CubeSat. The cooperation between SeRANIS and OroraTech is indeed unusual, as partnerships between the Bundeswehr and startups are rare. SeRANIS has set itself the goal of specifically integrating and promoting young…

  • Year-end Meeting 2023

    On December 19, the SeRANIS project of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich held its year-end meeting, during which the entire project team visited 13 different laboratory units working on various areas of the SeRANIS satellite mission. The aim of these laboratory excursions was to introduce each other to the individual research areas so that…

  • VDE Position Paper – New Space Communications

    Recently, the new position paper “NeSC – NewSpace Communications” has been published by the VDE ITG. In this publication, the experts show the characteristics and technical boundary conditions of NewSpace Communications (NeSC) systems, describe current system solutions and market participants, opportunities and challenges of the NeSC concepts, and finally give recommendations for action for research, development…

  • Keynote speech from Prof. Andreas Knopp at PIMRC 2023

    September 5th, 2023 – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Knopp, director of the Institute of Information Technology at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and coordinator of the dtec.bw SeRANIS project has held a keynote speech “Distribution: a key enabler for future satellite systems” during the IEEE PIMRC Conference 2023, a flagship conference of the IEEE Communications…